Hinge for changeable exhibitors



Patented Dec. 9, 1941 HINGE FOR CHAN GEABLE EXHIBITORS Raymond C. Finch, Jamestown, N. Y., assignor to Art Metal Construction Company, Jamestown, N. Y., a corporation of Massachusetts Application April 18, 1940, Serial No. 330,346

3 Claims.

This invention relates to hinges for changeable exhibitors of the class having hinged leaves or panels to receive the matter to be exhibited. The support for the hinged leaves may be of any appropriate character, either rotatable or fixed. The invention is more particularly concerned with a novel arrangement of pintles and hinge pieces for connecting each leaf or panel to the support.

The invention will best be understood by reference to the following description when taken in connection with the accompanying illustrations of specific embodiments thereof, while its scope will be pointed out more particularly in the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a plan of an exhibitor exemplifying the invention;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view on line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is an elevation illustrating a portion of Y the hinge and pintle arrangement;

Fig. 4 is a plan on an enlarged scale illustrating the hinge and pintle arrangement;

Fig. 5 is a horizontal sectional view, on line 5--5 of Fig. 2, illustrating the hinge and pintle arrangement;

Fig. 6 is a plan similar to Fig. 4, but showing the hinge piece and pintles in another position; and

Fig. 7 is an elevation illustrating a modification.

Referring to the drawings, and to both embodiments of the invention illustrated therein, and having reference at first to Figs. 1 and 2, there is shown an exhibitor comprising a support 8 which may be of any appropriate character, the one shown by way of example having fixed, diverging wings l0 and having upper and lower bearing brackets l2 in which upper and lower pintles l4 turn, and a lower supporting bracket I6 upon which the lower end of the lower pintle I4 rests.

In one example (see Fig. 3) the pintles M are parts of a continuous, metallic wire l8, while in another example (see Fig. 7) there are upper and lower metallic pintles 20 which are separate and distinct, that is to say there is no intermediate connection as in the first example. The first example, however, is preferred because of its greater strength.

In the first example (see Fig. 3) there are two offset portion 22 in the length of the wire 18 and there are like offsets in the case of the second example'illustrated in Fig. 7 to bring the axes of the pintles into the same plane as two metallic hinge pieces 24 (identical in both examples) to which the offset portions in each example are, suitably secured as by welding. In each example (see Fig. 5) the hinge piece is wrapped about and suitably secured as by welding to a wire 26 which furnishes pintles for the hinge pieces, but nevertheless rigidly connects the hinge pieces to each other so that they are compelled to turn in unison about the axis of the wire 26. There is also wrapped about the wire 26 a vertically elongated hinge piece 28 notched at 30 to receive the hinge pieces 24. Thus, the hinge piece 28 constitutes bearings for the pintles presented by the wire 26. The elongated hinge piece 28 is, in effect, a part of leaves or panels 32 of appropriate construction to receive the matter to be displayed.

The described, double-hinged arrangement of parallel sets of pintles and hinge pieces possesses several advantages, among which may be mentioned great fleXibility in the mounting of the leaves, ease of turning movement, ease of access to the adjacent faces of the leaves near their inner edges, and ease of application of the hinging arrangements to the support. There are also certain manufacturing advantages, such as ease of application of the pintles 20 to the hinge pieces 24.

Having thus described these embodiments of the invention, what I claim and desire by Letters Patent to secure is:

I claim:

1. In a hinge structure, the combination of a support furnishing bearings, a wire furnishing upper and lower coaxial pintles mounted to turn in said upper and lower bearings, respectively, said wire having a plurality of oifset portions, a plurality of hinge pieces received in said offset portions, respectively, and secured to said wire, a second wire furnishing coaxial pintles rigidly secured to said hinge pieces, and a hinge piece in which the last-mentioned pintles turn.

2. In a hinge structure, the combination of a support furnishing upper and lower bearings, two separate and distinct coaxial pintles mounted to turn in said upper and lower bearings, respectively, each pintle having an offset portion, two hinge pieces received in said offset portions, respectively, and secured to said hinge pieces, and coaxial pintles parallel with the first mentioned pintles and secured to said hinge pieces, respectively.

3. In a hinge structure, the combination of a fixed support including upper and lower bearings, axially aligned upper and lower pintles which turn in said bearings, respectively, upper and lower hinge pieces secured to' said upper and lower pintles, respectively, said pintles extending in opposite directions from said hinge pieces, said hinge pieces being vertically spaced from said upper and lower bearings, supporting means on which the lower end of the lower pintle rests, a vertically elongated hinge piece provided with 'upper and lower notches which receive said upper and lower hinge pieces, respectively, and axially aligned upper and lower pintles carried by said upper and lower hinge pieces, respectively, and constituting pivots on which said elongated hinge piece turns with relation to said upper and lower hinge pieces and with relation to said fixed support.

RAYMOND O. FINCH.

CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION.

Patent No. 2,265,597. December 9, 19in RAYMOND C. FINCH.

It is hereby certified that error appears in' the printed specification of the above numbered patent requiring correction as follows; Page 1, second column, line 514., claim 1, strike out "upper and lower" and insert the same before "bearings" in line 55, same claim; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with 7 this correction therein that the same may conform to the record' of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 17th day of February, A. D. 1914.2.

Henry Van Arsdale, Seal) Acting Commissioner of Patents 

